Quotes
Challenge #439
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”
Richard Siken (Scheherazade)
Challenge #440
“In the middle of a glade, I had just offered funereal worship to the moon that was rising in my sky.”
Jean Genet (Funeral Rites)
Challenge #441
“She knows how to phrase the question
You want answered.”
Hans Ostrom (For Librarians)
Challenge #442
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."
Vladimir Nabokov ( Lolita)
Challenge #443
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Challenge #444
“I know why there is no glass in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window only opens partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”
Richard Siken (Scheherazade)
Challenge #440
“In the middle of a glade, I had just offered funereal worship to the moon that was rising in my sky.”
Jean Genet (Funeral Rites)
Challenge #441
“She knows how to phrase the question
You want answered.”
Hans Ostrom (For Librarians)
Challenge #442
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."
Vladimir Nabokov ( Lolita)
Challenge #443
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Challenge #444
“I know why there is no glass in front of the watercolor picture of blue irises, and why the window only opens partly and why the glass in it is shatterproof. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)